Improved winker for harness-bridles



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. 'l Leners Patent No, 105,544, mamy 19, 1870.

IMPROVE!) WINKER POR yHARNEE'lS-IBRIDLEIS.

` The Schedule referred t`o in these Letters Patent and part of the same To all lt'holn 'it ma!) colzcerlu Be it known that I, WILLIAM Born, ofMa-nsfield, in the county of Bristol and State of Massacllusetts, have invented a` certaill Improvement in shape.

The same letters are llsed ill all` the figures, ill the designation of identical parts. Y e

rIhis invention rel. tes to winkers used nconllectiou with horse-brdles, and the one hereinafter to be more fully described is designed an improvement upon winkels patented to W.` 8L iV. F. Boyd, J une .25, 1855, since extended.

' The winkel's described iujthe Letters Patent above .referred to are made by cutting the leather in thel de- -sired shnpe,large enough to form both -the flat and flaring pol'tions, and afterward forcing .properly-shaped metallic plates between the inner and outer pieces of leather, to give to the finished product the partly flat and pal'tly flaring shape therein described.

A Itwill be apparent, upon an inspection of the winkel's made in that manuel', that thel leather along the j swell in the ilaring part, and also along the edge on which the bridle-check is sewed, must stretcll somewhat, while it crimps along the base and outer edge of such part, and, as

those winkers were of necessity made of an inferior sewing, stitching, or in other suitable manuel'.

To 'enable thoseskilled in the vart to make' and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its'construcand operation.

` v Tile lining of the llat part is the very best of leather will. crimp or stretch very little, or, practically, not at all,

l Witnesses.-

In the annexed drawings-f A represents the dat portion of the improved winkel',

which'is to be attached to the bridle ill the customary manner.

It is composed of a `pieceof best quality leather,

which may bejapanned upon the outer side, and a lin ing, between which the metallic plate A' is inserted, all heilig cut inthe desired shape opposite the side where it is attached to the bridle to receive the flaring or crescent portion B.

In the construction ot' the latter, a japanned outer l piece oi' leather anda lining are used to receive he tween'theni the curved metallic plate B.

The manuel' of uniting the two parts A and B, and inserting the metallic plate A in the dat, andy B ill the flaring portion, for the purpose of keeping the winkel' permanently in shape, is as follows:

Alter the japanned leather of the crescent partis Vlilled and stitched around the outside edge, it is sewed by an inside seam to the japanned-leatherof the llat Apart, and the hollow spllerical segment B' having been properly placed between the two thicknesses of leather of the crescent part, the lillillg'isdrawn over such plate or` segment, and sewed to the outer or curved edge of the japanned leather of the dat part, concealing the seam asmuch as possible.

then sewed at its curved edge to the lining of the crescent part, and, after-inserting the plate lA between the japanned leathel' and such lining, the two thicknesses of leather of the flat part are stitched together at the ends, and the winkel' finished in the-usual manner around' the edges. ,Y l

It will be observed that the metallic plates are not employed ill this case to shape the winker, but are simply usedto retain it ill shape.

What I clailn as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,-

` The bl'idle-winkers herein described, the peculiarity` or crescent one, B B', united together substantially in the manner and for -the purpose set forth. l l In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing WILLIAM BOYD.

, Witnesses:

W. F. BOYD, W B. BATES.,- 

